banavgift

English translation: track access charge

09:37 Apr 6, 2020

Swedish to English translations [PRO]
Bus/Financial - Transport / Transportation / Shipping

Swedish term or phrase: banavgift

This comes from a text on railway services in Sweden. The term "banavgift" is here used for indicating the fee paid by train operators to the government for using its railways. So, what I am looking for here is the established English term used for these kinds of fees, preferably in British English.

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Local time: 21:36

English translation:track access charge

Explanation:
This is the term used in the EU.

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Tim Kynerd
Sweden
Local time: 21:36

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track access charge

Tim Kynerd

(BrE) rail(-)infrastructure user(-)charge

Adrian MM.

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Typo

Christopher Schröder

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peer agreement (net): +3

track access charge

Explanation:
This is the term used in the EU.

https://www.cerre.eu/publications/track-access-charges-reconciling-conflicting-objectives

Tim Kynerd
Sweden
Local time: 21:36
Works in field
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in category: 56

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Thanks a lot!

12 hrs confidence:

(BrE) rail(-)infrastructure user(-)charge

Explanation:
- and neither a typo, nor a child-minding (barnavgift) fee.

Be that as it may, having been an erstwhile train-, Routemaster Red London Bus- and Green Line coach-spotter (and aspiring driver) as a child in the South of England, I used to view the ,ode of transport and locomotion from a consumer's angle.

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...mode of transport...

Example sentence(s):

Calculation of charges for the use of rail infrastructure: a perspective from ORR Paul McMahon, Deputy Director, Competition & Regulatory Economics
The share of the different charge elements of the total amount of charge per 1 train-km .....shows that the most significant emphasis is laid on the charge for traffic management as an element of the charge for the use of rail infrastructure.

Reference: http://www.rail.co.uk/our-partners/rail-operators

Adrian MM.
Austria
Native speaker of:

English

Reference comments

3 hrs peer agreement (net): +1

Reference: Typo

Reference information:
I think the author has conflated two related terms and then mistyped🙄 When transporting fruit by rail, a corrosive banangift can leak onto the rails, for which the operators have to pay a bananavgift in compensation. This is a huge problem now the fruit can’t be carried by air.

Christopher Schröder
United Kingdom
Works in field
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in category: 11

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